New PT attachments

blackwell · Mar 28, 2004

Brian,

We made a light material carier to attach to the pallet forks on the 425 by cutting a 16 ga. steel sheet 5' x 5' and bending 90 degrees 2' from the edge, thus making a back and bottom in one piece. Then cut two triangles of 16 ga 2' x 3' for the ends. Tacked a piece of 1/4 x 4 flat bar under front for cutter bar and to reinforce the front edge. Outlined the back and end with 1.5 x1.5 x .120 wall sq tube to reinforce edges. Set on forks and install 3 ea. 3/8 bolts. The forks gives the structure strenth without much weight. As stated in Hans post, expanded metal could be used on part or all the area we used steel plate. This thing would hold about 30 cu ft of light material. Will hold 4 sq bales of straw or full of shreaded mulch.
I think PTs have had more modifications and special GISMOS build for them than any machine I have heard of. They are a good platform to adapt to and easy to modify.
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Charlie_Iliff · Mar 29, 2004

EB
Sounds as if 20000 is a sufficient sample, and the driver has the advantage over the vibrating compactor/drivers that it holds the post vertical while driving.
Have you ever driven posts for post and rail fence? I assume they tend to explode where they are drilled for the rails. We have something over a mile of post and rail that we repair rather than replacing, but a lot is fairly old.

blackwell · Mar 29, 2004

Charlie,

We have built two small sections of new post and rail fence, total about 400'. Sharpen the post, then raise the hammer less for each stroke, less impact force and more strokes. The PT driver uses a 4-way valve which allows the operator to raise the hammer any amount up to 42" then drop it for heavy or light impact. We did break some, but not many. We did not try it but drilling a small pilot hole would also help.
EB

Tak · Mar 31, 2004

How about this idea (just an idea so far, haven't worked on it yet)

A leveller or bucket with scarifier or ripper teeth mounted on it to make levelling a more efficient process. The pt seems better suited to pull the rippers so the if the rippers were mounted up front, they would need to be configured to be dragged rather than pushed.

lt

MossRoad · Mar 31, 2004

Hey, Who's this guy??? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Long time since we've heard from you. How's it going?

Does the PT box blade have scarrifiers? Do you pull it or push it?

bubenberg · Apr 1, 2004

Aloha! How are You? Great idea.
hans /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Tak · Apr 1, 2004

Aloha to all. Still here. I've been around off and on (just reading posts though). Looks like the posting activity has picked up a bit lately. We've been buried in work partly due to the unsually wet weather we've been having which makes jobs last 2-3x as long as usual. Have been using the tractor mostly around the nursery and at jobs for only basic tasks so really haven't had much to contribute to the forum. Did have a small job where we had to haul 10 cy of mulch and compost across 150 ft of beautiful lawn. Worked out great in no time flat. Have a few upcoming jobs with much more extensive pt use required. We'll see how that goes. Hope to be able to contribute more to the forum as we gain more experience. Till then, aloha.

Tak · Apr 1, 2004

mr,

Dont' know about the pt box blade having scarifiers or not. Although a box blade has it's advantages, the bucket / scarifier combination has the ability to move a quantity of material around the site. Maybe it would be best suited for more preliminary rough grading? The pt doesn't seem heavy enough for bulldozing type movements so maybe it might be more efficient to carry large quantities of soil? Also, definitely pulling rather than pushing rippers. Of course, for light grading, maybe the box blade might work our better.

Tak · Apr 1, 2004

mr,

I must be a very inefficient person. Where do you guys find the time to keep up with this forum? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif My posting time for the last 3 posts are 2:58am local time. That's the only time I could find to squeeze in a response.

lt